Three and a half weeks from the day he was shot, Joe was sitting up in a rehab bed, wishing he could get out, when the door was opened by his two boys. They were older, and he had difficulty recognizing the little one. Sheila had dropped them off, and told them it was their daddy in the room. Like so many children, they were shy around someone they hadn’t seen for a long time. After a while, they began to ask him about how he got hurt, and were fascinated that he had been shot by a bad guy.
When it was time to go, the boys asked if they could come back and visit the next day, and of course Joe said, “Yes, please do.” They even gave him a small, shy hug.
Robert Dawson’s money was found in some offshore accounts. After sundry bills were paid to the hospital for property damage, the money was given to his two children. They had lost their mother and dad, but at least they would never want for anything money could buy. The children’s grandmother called to thank Detective Rogers for finding the money, and later set up a large trust fund for the care of Wanda May Wilson, Eve Devine’s sister. The last Maude heard, Wanda May was improving mightily with access to a specialist’s care.
Maude continued the battle with her addiction, and was a regular at the church meetings, learning and practicing humility—a difficult task for her. She continued working as a homicide detective, not because she had to, but because she loved it. Besides, she had to do something until Bill arrived. With Dawson dead and no longer a threat to anyone, she closed the book on his life, even though sometimes the memory of the small, abused boy who had become a monster still crossed her mind.
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